Train Your Mind for Peak Performance: A Science-Based Approach for Achieving Your Goals

✍ Scribed by Lyle E. Bourne Jr., Alice F. Healy

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Series: APA LifeTools Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Practical tips to help you learn quickly, remember what you learn, and apply it to real-world performance.

Whether you’re training to play the piano, speak a foreign language, shoot a target with a bow and arrow, or master the techniques of fine carpentry, the conditions of your training will affect how successfully you learn and perform.

• How can you process needed new information in order to remember it better and use it in the future?
• How long should you work, study, or practice before taking a break?
• How can you counteract fatigue and boredom to improve performance if the task is tedious?

This book shares practical tips to help you learn quickly, remember what you learn, and apply it to real-world performance. Exercises in the form of mini-experiments are provided so that readers can see first-hand why some learning conditions are better than others.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
What ’s This Book All About?
Chapter 2
How to Learn Quickly: Increasing the Efficiency of Training
Chapter 3
How to Retain What You Learn: Increasing the Durability of Training
Chapter 4
How to Apply What You Learn to New Situations: Increasing the Generalizability of Training
Chapter 5
Refreshing Your Skills, Aging, and Debunking Myths About Training
Recommended Additional
Reading
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors